Monday, February 27, 2017

"When You Know Why Your Here, Tell Me"

So
this week was a lot of fun, with some surprises as well. Time continues to move
quickly, which is normal. IAN is now working on his papers for the mission!?!?!
It is really happening!?! Wowy where has the time all gone.

We had our
interviews with President Baquerizo, and I have to tell you my experience, it
was pretty awesome. So we started with me and my companion Elder Amato together
in the interview to talk about how the zone was doing, and then my companion
left and I had my interview with President. We talked about some stuff, how I
was feeling about the new schedule and things like that, and then he asked me
if I had any questions. So I asked about my returning to La Libertad 3 times in
my mission, and explained to him how I started in Tintal, left to Girardot,
came back to CasaBlanca, left again to Leticia, and once again back in La
Libertad. He was kinda like" yeah... and?" So I asked him why and we
kinda laughed a good amount while he said “I have no Idea Elder, When you
figure it out, tell me." So that was a pretty funny moment. He hadn’t
realized I had been here so long, or that I had come back so many times. He
simply told me "I just know that the Lord needs Elder Kendall here, you
will find out why." Which sounds good to me.

We also had
a multi-zone conference with Kennedy, which meant I got to see all my good
friends from Leticia!!! I found out that Antonio still hasn’t been confirmed,
and neither has Loreinny. So I’m really praying that happens like, now haha. We
had to give a training on the Area Book, and it went pretty well.

Other than
that, super cool this week, we finally had investigators attend church! There
is a super cool family called the Parra Family, and the Dad Alonzo, Daughter
Angie, and the Son Nicholas all came to church and had a super good experience.
Nicholas is 9 years old, but was participating a ton in Gospel Principles
class. We split into groups and talked about a certain principle and shared it
with the class. We asked Nicholas if he wanted to share what we had talked
about, and he said yes! Then he totally nailed it and explained it perfectly,
it was super cool. So, we are hoping that they keep assisting!

We need new
investigators. A lot.

I’m loving
serving here in La Libertad, and in Colombia, being a missionary is simply the
coolest.

Love,

Elder
Kendall

Me with Elder Espinola, he finishes the mission TOMORROW! He is on the plane tomorrow

The zone shirt they made when I was in Letiticia... a little interesting huh? hahahaha